Choral services
Sung prayer has been offered in Westminster Abbey nearly every day for over a thousand years. Today, services are sung daily during term time by the world-renowned Choir of Westminster Abbey, and by visiting choirs when the Abbey Choir is in recess.
The music sung ranges from Gregorian chant dating from the first millennium to contemporary music and encompasses the remarkable richness and variety of the Anglican choral tradition.
This week's choral services
| Sunday, 5th July 2026 | |||||
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| Fifth Sunday after Trinity | |||||
| 10.00am | Matins | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Martin Responses |
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| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | High Altar | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Poulenc Mass in G Preacher: The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle KCVO MBE Dean of Westminster |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Tallis O nata lux de lumine Preacher: The Venerable Jennifer Adams-Massmann Canon in Residence |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church | |||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Howells Collegium Regale Preacher: The Reverend Dr Sarah Archer Priest Vicar |
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| Monday, 6th July 2026 | |||||
| Thomas More, scholar, and John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, Reformation martyrs, 1535 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choristers of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of the Republic of Malawi | Handel How beautiful are the feet of them |
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| Tuesday, 7th July 2026 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by the Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands | Bairstow I sat down under his shadow |
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| Wednesday, 8th July 2026 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Lloyd View me, Lord, a work of thine |
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| Thursday, 9th July 2026 | |||||
| The Burial of Lady Margaret Beaufort, 1509 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Bairstow I sat down under his shadow |
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| Friday, 10th July 2026 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey; attended by the High Commissioner of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas | Duruflé Ubi caritas et amor Deus ibi est |
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| Saturday, 11th July 2026 | |||||
| St Benedict, Abbot of Montecassino, father of western monasticism, c 550 | |||||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire | |||
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Bairstow I sat down under his shadow |
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